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category: "Scientists & Researchers"
tags:
  - Person
  - Researcher
summary: "Oxford scientist and Lord Cherwell who served as Churchill's chief science adviser and formed early connections with figures central to Israel's nuclear program origins."
born: 1886-04-05
died: 1957-07-03
location: "Baden-Baden, Germany"
---

Frederick A. Lindemann, later Lord Cherwell, was a German-born Oxford scientist who became [[Winston Churchill]]'s chief science adviser in the years before World War II. He came to know [[Ernst David Bergmann]] and [[Chaim Weizmann]] during this period.[^1]

### Footnotes

[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 2.